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Almanac: Week: 30 \ Day: 204
July Averages: 82°\50°
86004 Today: H 80° \ L 50° Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind ave: 10mph\Gusts: 20mph
Ave.
High: 82° Record High: 92° (1996) Ave. Low: 51° Record
Low: 37° (1987)
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Observances Today:
Gorgeous
Grandma Day
Hot
Enough For Ya Day
Lumberjack
Days
National
Day of the Cowboy
National
Hot Dog Day
Vanilla
Ice Cream Day
Revolution
Day (Egypt-1952-ended monarachy)
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Observances This Week:
National
Moth Week: 18-26
Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) Education & Awareness Week: 18-25
Everybody Deserves A Massage Week: 19-25
Captive Nations Week: 19-25
Comi Great Texas Mosquitos Days: 23-25
Hemingway Look-alike Days: 23-26
World Lumberjack Championships: 23-25
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1664 - 4 British ships to drive Dutch out of NY,
arrive in Boston
1827 - 1st US swimming school opens (Boston Mass)
1851 - Treaty of Traverse des Sioux signed by Sioux
Indians & US
1852 - 1st interment in US National Cemetery at
Presidio
1877 - 1st US municipal railroad, Cincinnati
Southern, begins operations
1877 - 1st telephone & telegraph line in Hawaii
completed
1880 - 1st commercial hydroelectric power planet
begins, Grand Rapids, Michigan
1882 - Mormon settlement
of Tempe founded after the purchase of eighty acres of land for $3,000 from
Charles T. Hayden, pioneer merchant, miller and ferryman.
1888 - John Boyd Dunlop applies to patent pneumatic
tire
1904 - Ice cream cone created by during St Louis
World Fair - reputedly first by Charles E Menches
1937 - Isolation of pituitary hormone announced
(Yale University)
1956 - Bell X-2 rocket plane sets world aircraft
speed record of 3,050 kph
1978 - 33rd US Women's Open Golf Championship won
by Hollis Stacy
1984 - Vanessa Williams, 1st African American Miss
America, resigns-posing nude
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Today’s World Events through History
636 - Arabs gain control of most of Palestine from
Byzantine Empire
1632 - Three hundred colonists bound for New France
depart from Dieppe, France.
1798 - Napoleon captures Alexandria, Egypt
1803 - Robert Emmett leads rebellion in Dublin
1900 - The Canadian government reviews immigration
policy, prohibiting criminals and paupers from landing in Canada
1920 - British East Africa renamed Kenya &
becomes a British crown colony
1931 - France announces it can't afford to send a
team to 1932 LA Olympics
1946 - Menachem Begin's Zionist militant group
Irgun bombs the King David Hotel, the then British administrative headquarters
for Palestine
1970 - A ban on parades and public processions
until January 1971 is announced by the Stormont government (North Ireland
Parliament)
1971 - The British Army carry out early morning
raids across Northern Ireland and arrest 48 people
1994 - Goodwill Games open in St Petersburg
2014 - Commonwealth Games in Glasgow holds its
opening ceremony
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♫ Birthdays
Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
What a great day for a nice walk…not too hot, almost no clouds,
and just a slight breeze. Love our summers.
Texted Mary and she is recovering well and headed for the beach
with grandkids. Cheryl and I are having lunch tomorrow.
Enjoying the Clown bus with all 16 Republican candidates. In our ‘now’
news world, The Donald has taken over the media…either with his bizarre
comments about his competitors or by his competitors trying to reply. If any of
the 16 would have a rally and talk about issues or their policy plans, the
Donald would quickly disappear from the airwaves…but all are vying for a spot
on the Fox debates which will only have the 10 top contenders…so all are just
raising money, shaking hands, taking selfies with their supporters, raising
money. Fun to watch.
So the Navajo Nation vote finally took place. In the future, the
election requirements will no longer require fluency in the Navajo language.
This really is a big deal for the Navajo people, their culture and the future.
As a linguist, this is just one more nail. Kinda sad.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Gretchen
just returned from the beach, and told her brother Henry that she found three
interesting types of shells. He asked what they were, and she answered with
these rebuses:
LL
LL
AA
CC
SS
1. Nice Naughty Nice Naughty
2. Naughty Nice Naughty Nice
*3. Nice Nice Nice Nice
After thinking for a while, Henry says, "I get the first two types of
shells, but didn't you say you found three?"
"Oops! I almost forgot!" replies Gretchen, as she hits her brother on
the head.
"Now I know them all!" he laughs.
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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Cool Facts…
The inventor of the Game Boy, was originally Nintendo’s janitor
and maintenance man. His name was Gunpei Yokoi.
Pierre Jaquet-Droz, a watchmaker, 240 years ago invented a robot
that could write, and the parts could be interchanged to say whatever you want.
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…Flagstaff, AZ
History…
75 YEARS AGO-1940
Fred Harvey is unloading seven to eight cars of hay each week at
their barns here. It comes from their Del Rio Ranch and feeds the mules and
horses used in connection with their saddle trips.
About 20,000 fingerling trout were released by Game and Fish into
Bright Angel Creek this week.
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…Harper’s Index…
1/6 – portion
of hogs slaughter in the US that are raised by a single Chinese company
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… USA Facts…
The largest hotel suite in the world is located 22 stories under
the surface in the Grand Canyon Caverns.
One night for two people in this 65 million year old cave is $700.
Harvard earns enough money from interest on its endowment that it
could offer free tuition to every student and still profit.
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…Unusual Fact of the
Day…
100,000,000,000 solar neutrinos pass through every square inch of
your body every second.
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2 jokes for the day
Lady:(standing in the middle of a busy street)
Officer, can you tell me how to get to the Hospital?
Officer: Just stand where you are!!!
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A boy walks into the school nurse's office.
Nurse: Why are you here?
Boy: I’m sick
Nurse: sick of what?
Boy: The teacher
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Yep, It Really
Happened
WUHAN
CITY, China (UPI) - Chinese police said a disgruntled girlfriend led to the arrest
of a man accused of posing as an officer and converting his home into a fake
police station. Police in Wuhan City said the man's girlfriend went to police
when he threatened to post a sexually explicit video of the couple online, and
investigators discovered the man had been posing as an officer named
"Inspector Lei" for at least two years. Investigators said the fake
inspector had sirens on his car and his apartment was converted into a fake
police station, complete with an interrogation room featuring a Chinese flag
and a bust of Mao Zedong. Police said the man was posing as on officer for a
moneymaking scheme that involved selling falsified Public Security Bureau documents
and warrants to members of the public. The man's girlfriend said she started to
doubt his honesty after some of her friends told her that he had been flirting
with them online. She said he claimed to have been an officer in the military
before becoming a police officer. Police said the man admitted to planting a
GPS tracking device in the woman's car while it was undergoing repairs. The
items seized from the apartment include forged documents, fake police uniforms,
GPS devices, pinhole cameras, handcuffs and batons.
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Somewhat Useless
Information
The
Field Museum and its collections originated from the 1893 World's Columbian
Exposition and the artifacts displayed at the fair. In order to house the
exhibits and collections assembled for 1893 Chicago World's Fair for future
generations, Edward Ayer convinced the merchant Marshall Field to fund the
establishment of a museum.
Originally titled the Columbian Museum of Chicago in honor of its origins, the
Field Museum was incorporated by the State of Illinois on September 16, 1893,
for the purpose of the "accumulation and dissemination of knowledge, and
the preservation and exhibition of artifacts illustrating art, archaeology,
science and history."
In 1905, the Museum's name was changed to Field Museum of Natural History to
honor the Museum's first major benefactor, Marshall Field, and to better
reflect its focus on the natural sciences.
In 1921 the Museum moved from its original location in Jackson Park to its
present site on Chicago Park District property near downtown.
On May 17, 2000, the Field Museum unveiled Sue, the most complete and
best-preserved Tyrannosaurus rex fossil yet discovered. Sue is 42 feet long, stands
13 feet high at the hips and is 67 million years old.
The Field Museum Library contains over 275,000 books, journals, and photo
archives focused on biological systematics, evolutionary biology, geology,
archaeology, ethnology and material culture!
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Birthdays Today
90 - Gloria De Haven, LA, actress (Bog,
Yellow Cab Man, Irene-Nakia)
79 - Anthony M Kennedy, California, 106th
Supreme Court justice (1988- )
75 - Don Imus, radio disc jockey (WNBC)
68 - Spencer Christian, weatherman (Good
Morning America)
54 - Woody Harrelson, Midland Tx, actor
(Woody Boyd-Cheers)
50 - Slash, [Saul Hudson], rock guitarist
& songwriter (Guns N' Roses)
43 - Marlon Wayans, comedian (Wayans Bros,
In Living Color)
43 - Omar Epps, American actor,
rapper, record producer
42 - Monica Lewinsky, White House intern
26 - Daniel Radcliffe, actor (Harry Potter
in the Harry Potter series of movies
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Born this day…Died in __@__
Haile
Selassie, [Ras Tafari Makonnen], emperor of Ethiopia-1975@83
Arthur
Treacher, Brighton England, announcer (Merv Griffin Show)-1975@81
[Harold] Pee Wee Reese,
Hall of Fame shortstop (Dodgers)-1999@81
Charles
S. Frazier, my dad, accountant-1974@80
Raymond
Chandler, Chicago, mystery writer (Farewell My Lovely)-1959@70
Bert
Convy, St Louis Mo, actor (Snoop Sisters, Win Lose or Draw)-1991@57
Don
Drysdale [Donald Scott], MLB player (Dodgers-Cy Young 1962)- 1993@56
Philip
Seymour Hoffman, actor (Capote, Moneyball)-2014@46
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Historical Obits Today
Eudora
Welty, American author-2001@92
Eddie
Rickenbacker, WW I fighter pilot-1973@82
Betty
Parsons, American artist and art dealer-1982@82
Kay Kyser,
bandleader (Kay Kyser's Kollege)-1985@80
Emile
Griffith, US Virgin Islands professional boxer, dementia-2013@75
D.W.
Griffith, American director/producer, cerebral hemorrhage-1948@73
Roger
Sherman, lawyer and Founding Father of US, typhoid fever-1793@72
Sally Kristen Ride, American astronaut, pancreatic
cancer-2012@61
Ulysses
S. Grant, 18th US President\Union general, cancer-1885@63
Van
Heflin, actor (Great Adventure), heart attack-1971@60
Vic
Morrow, actor (Cimmaron), killed during "Twilight Zone"-1982@53
[Edward] Montgomery Clift,
actor (From Here to Eternity), heart attack-1966@45
James E.
Davis, Brooklyn councilman, murdered in council chambers-2003@41
Amy
Winehouse, British singer songwriter, alcohol intoxication-2011@27
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Brain Teasers Answers
The first type were scallops (SCALL-ups). The second was nautilus
(Naughty-less). And the last was conch (conk!).
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Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or
disagree.
All ‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is usually
checked with at least one other source, but I have learned that every site contains
mistakes and sadly once the information is out there, many sites simply copy it
and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events occurring before the
Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be totally accurate.
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